Louis Borders is the founder of both

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(in 1971) and

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(in 1996). The original Borders bookstore was located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where it was founded in 1971 by brothers Tom and Louis Borders during their undergraduate and graduate years at the

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. The Borders brothers' inventory system tailored each store's offerings to its community. Borders studied mathematics at the University of Michigan during his undergraduate years and MIT for graduate work.

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